Wearing-apparel.



E. AXFORD.

WEARING APPAREL.

APPLICATION FILED MAY e, 1913.

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EDWARD AXFORD, OF GERMANTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA.

WEARING-APPAREL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 15, 1914.

Application filed May 6, 1913. Serial No. 765,742.

To all whom z't may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD Axrono, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Germantown, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Wearing-Apparel, of which the following is a specification. A

y The principal object of the present invention is to provide improved open drawers which will :really and effectually remain closed and cover the person of the wearer in all positions and which, when on "the wearer, will have a certain tendency to return to closed position even if disturbed therefrom by violent or unusual motions of the wearer. a

The invention will be claimed at the end hereof, but will ,be first' described in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l, is a front view of drawers embodyingfeatures of the invention and attached to a shirt. Fig. 2, is a plan view, looking upward in Fig.1. Fig, 3, is a rear view of the drawers. Fig. 4, is a front view,

' illustrating a modification, and Fig. 5, is a side View of the drawers shown in Fig. 3.

continuous flap 4.- is,

The drawing shows open drawers having a split body. One body portion a, formed by the split, overlaps the other body portion 6, formed by the split, at the waist line 9.

4, is a singlefiap extending continuously downthe back and past the center 3 and up the front and projecting from the edge of the underlying body portion b. This single in the normal position of the drawers when on the wearer, located to one side of the center line of the garment and in this position it is held between the overlapping body portion a and the body, or more accurately, the center part of one buttock of the wearer. At the crotch or center portion 3, the flap extends generally crosswise of the garment, so that it may be said to project from the leg 2 into and partly across the leg 1. The flap 4 may be .made shorter, if desired, as shown in Fig. 4.

than it is in Fig. 1. The drawers are provided with one flap only and there is but one flap. In Fig. l, the flaring part of the leg 1 where this single, continuous, uninterrupted flap enters is somewhat exaggerated to indicate the position of the flap so as to show how it is engaged.

.l/Vhen the drawers are attached to the shirt 6, the back of the drawers may be made long or the front of the drawers short and in this case there is provided fullness as at 7 in the seat part of the union suit. The waist line 8, at the back, is shown as straight and the waist line 9, at the front, is shown as rounded.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

An article of apparel comprising a body and leg portions said body portion provided with an opening extending from a point in the rear, near the waist line, downwardly through the crotch and up the front, one

side of the body portion extending inside the other body portion, and overlapped thereby; the free edge of the overlapping portion extending downwardly in substantially the vertical median line of the garment, and a single continuous flap, completing the crotch closure, said flap extending from the underlying body portion and projecting a substantial distance beyond the vertical median line of the garment so as to be held between the overlapping body portion and the body of the wearer.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name.

EDWARD AXFORD.

Witnesses:

CLIFFORD K. CAssEL, FRANK E. FRENCH.

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